This is classic marketing and I have talked about this before. Find your target group, the one that is most likely to buy from you, and market to that group. Don't try to be everything to everybody. Find your dream customer and find more of those. However, I never said it was easy. And it can be scary. You are always aware that you could be losing out on someone who may, perhaps, in theory, possibly buy. We all do it. I do it myself. I constantly have to remind myself that I have to choose and narrow it down further - not try to be everything to everybody. Until now I have defined my … [Read more...]
Content Marketing: Don‘t Build Things On Sand
Content marketing can be a very very strong marketing tactic for smaller businesses. It does require time and effort, but not necessarily that much cold hard cash – sometimes no cash at all. What it does require however is that you have already laid a solid foundation. If you don't know who you want to appeal to and if you don't know your viewers or readers, how are you going to make content that appeals to them? How will you know where best to share it with them? How will you know what kind of content they want to see? – do they like text, video, images etc? Also, you don't want to only … [Read more...]